Nikki Haley: Western wall part of Israel. US Embassy should be moved to Jerusalem

T. Belman. The US policy on the liberated territories has been in place for 50 years but it is unsustainable when history and reality are taken into account.

Jerusalem, including the Kotel, are fundamentally a part of Israel and always have been. It is high time that the US recognize this and change their policy. Their policy is based on the Res 181, which contrary to the Mandate, made Jerusalem an international city. Notwithstanding that, Ben Gurion accepted the resolution because it also provided that after 10 years the status of Jerusalem would be determined by referendum of it citizens. Ben Gurion had confidence that the Jews would win the referendum. Such referendum never took place.

The US also went along with the world and perhaps even led it, to reject Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem in 1980.

The US Envoy to the UN made the two remarkable statement supporting Israel’s sovereignty over the Western Wall as well as the embassy move in an interview with CBN News on Tuesday.

BY TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

The Western Wall is part of Israel, US Ambassador to the UN Nikkey Haley said on Tuesday as she took a number of stands that appears to differ from the Trump Administration.

“The Western Wall is part of Israel and I think that is how we have always seen it and that is how we should pursue it,” Haley told the Christian Broadcasting Network in a video interview.

“I am not real sure what happened with that issue,” she added.

“I know that they are trying to fix that and get that taken care of, we have always thought the Western Wall was part of Israel,” Haley said.

But in Washington when pressed on the matter, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer struck a different tone.

“The Western Wall is obviously one of the holiest sites in Jewish faith. It’s clearly in Jerusalem,” he told reporters.

“It’s an issue that’s had serious consideration. It will be a topic that’s going to be discussed during the President’s trip between the parties that he meets with.

“I think this stems from a comment that was made yesterday and which was not the policy of the United States,” Spicer said.

He spoke one day after two US officials in Jerusalem reportedly told Israelis that the Western Wall was in the West Bank and was, therefore, not under Israeli sovereignty.

US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster also had difficulty at a White House press briefing when asked, “Does the President believe that the Western Wall is part of Israel?”

He was pressed on that point twice and ducked it both times.

When briefing reporters on Trump’s visit to Jerusalem next week, McMaster made no mention of whether Trump would make use of the visit to announce the relocation of the US Embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.

Trump had promised to do so during his campaign for office, but has yet to make good on that pledge.

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